- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 20, 1941
- Place of Birth
- Berkshire, England, UK
Anneke Wills
Anneke Wills is a British actress famous for playing Polly, the swinging sixties companion to the first and second Doctor in Doctor Who from 1966 to 1967. Other roles include Evelyn in the ITC drama The Strange Report (1969-1970) and guest appearances in The Avengers and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Film roles include Anne in Some People (1962) and Angela in The Pleasure Girls (1965). From 1962 to 1979 she was married to Michael Gough but has subsequently twice remarried. The father of her first child was Anthony Newley, who left her for Joan Collins. In 1970 Wills effectively gave up acting to be a full time mum. Following her divorce from Gough, she left the UK in 1980 and lived in various places in the 16 years afterwards, including in Laos, Vietnam and India in the early 1980s, in the USA from 1983–1986, and in Canada from 1986–1996. She returned to live in the UK in 1996 and is …
Filmography
movieDoctor Who: The Underwater Menace
2023 · Polly Wright (voice)
movieDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones
2020 · Polly (voice)
movieDoctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019 · Polly Wright (voice)
tvDoctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018 · Self
movieRemembering Deborah Watling
2018 · Self
movieDoctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017 · Polly (archive footage)
movieThe Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2017
movieDoctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
2016 · Polly (Voice)
movieThe Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013 · Self
movieSecond Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
movieThe End of the Line?
2011
movieDoctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010 · Polly Wright (archive footage)
movieNow, Get Out of That
2008
movieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Polly Wright (archive footage)
movieThe Dalek Tapes
2006 · Self
movieThe Story of Doctor Who
2003
movieCarnival of Monsters
1999
movieLust in Space
1998 · Self
movieBidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996 · Self
movieDoctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984 · Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
tvStrange Report
1969 · Evelyn McLean
movieDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1967 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The Moonbase
1967 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1967 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The Highlanders
1967 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1966 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The Tenth Planet
1966 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The Smugglers
1966 · Polly
movieDoctor Who: The War Machines
1966 · Polly
tvThirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Julia
movieThe Pleasure Girls
1965 · Angela
tvThe Likely Lads
1964 · Judith Francis
tvThe Wednesday Play
1964 · Leda
movieNothing But the Best
1964 · Young Wife
tvDoctor Who
1963 · Polly Wright
tvThe Sentimental Agent
1963 · Sarah
tvThe Saint
1962 · Fran Roeding
movieSome People
1962 · Anne
movieCandidate for Murder
1962 · Jacqueline
tvThe Avengers
1961 · Judy
movieThe Light Fantastic
1960 · Girl in Flamenco Club
tvThe Strange World of Gurney Slade
1960 · Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills)
tvNo Hiding Place
1959
movieChild's Play
1954 · Alice Nightingale